Naomi Joy (Noni) HUXLEY

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HUXLEY, Naomi Joy

Service Number:	90879
Enlisted:	12 February 1942
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Windsor, Victoria, Australia, 24 September 1922
Home Town:	Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
Schooling:	Stott's Business College, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Occupation:	Clerk Typist
Died:	Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 21 September 2016, aged 93 years, cause of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Cornelian Bay Cemetery and Crematorium, Tasmania
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World War 2 Service

12 Feb 1942:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 90879
6 Mar 1945:	Discharged Royal Australian Air Force, Sergeant, 90879

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Sergeant Naomi Joy Huxley (Service No:90879) enlisted in the WAAAF on 12 February 1942 at No 1 Recruiting Centre Melbounre as an Aircraftwoman I and was attached to WAAAF Training Training Depot Malvern - mustered as Clerk General. ACWI Huxley served at AFHQ Melbourne - promoted to Corporal on 1 January 1943 and to Sergeant in December 1943. Sergeant Huxley then served - mustered as Clerk Medical - at 2 PD Sydney and HQ NEA Townsville. Sergeant Huxley was attached to HQ WEA at Discharge on 6 March 1945.

Noni was born in Melbourne, Victoria in 1922, the only child of Cyril Douglas Huxley (b1897 at Currie, King Island, Tasmania) and his first wife Evelyn (Eva) Blanche Burkett (b1903 in Launceston, Tasmania). Cyril and Eva married in 1922 in Morwell, Victoria, and Eva left in 1923 to live in Melbourne - Cyril and Eva divorced in 1928 and both remarried.

Noni grew up in Melbourne with her mother and stepfather (Francis Joseph Yott) and was a Clerk Typist in 1942 when she enlisted in the Air Force. In 1945 Noni was in Melbourne when she married Athol Charles Gray (b1923 in Hobart, Tasmania) - Athol served in the ACMF (Service No:T101806) and RAAF (Service No:88062). Noni and Athol settled in Melbourne, where Athol worked as a Bricklayer before moving to Franklin, Tasmania in the early 1960s - Athol worked as a Bricklayer. Athol died in 1994 and Noni in 2016.

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